Kamal Haasan
— Veerasekaran Senapathy / Chandra Bose
Manisha Koirala
— Aishwarya
Urmila Matondkar
— Sapna
Sukanya
— Amrithavalli
Nedumudi Venu
— Krishnasamy
Manorama
— Kuppamma
Goundamani
— Subbaiyaa
Senthil
— Panneerselvam
Kasturi Shankar
— Kasthuri
Nizhalgal Ravi
— Corrupt Doctor
Crazy Mohan
— Parthasarathy
Ajay Rathnam
— Freedom Fighter
Ponnambalam
— 'Kada' Kumar
Bala Singh
— Treasury department officer
Chokkalinga Bhagavathar
Omakuchi Narasimhan
— Lorry Driver
Vikram Dharma
Kovai Senthil
Mahanadhi Shankar
S. Ve. Venkatraman
Shankar
— Self
Nassar
— Krishnasamy (voice)
Rohini
— Aishwarya (voice)
Bhanupriya
— Sapna (voice)